Where are you located? Several ideas, but some of them are region specific. For an experimental hunk of spark plug wire, I'd probably be looking for a junk yard. That would most likely be resistance wire- typical resistance values are 3-12k per foot. Which may or may not be a problem in your application. At work, there's a division of the company the routinely works on high voltage transmission and distribution equipment. Let me poke around Monday and I may be able to find you an offcut of something and mail it to you. In this case, the problem will be finding something small enough - they routinely work with 1000 mcm (conductor one inch in diameter) -Denny --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .